Psalms 144

1 [A Psalm off] David. Blessed be the LORD my rock, which teacheth my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight:

Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.

2 My lovingkindness, and my fortress, my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.

3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?

4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

Part Your heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.

Flash forth Your lightning and scatter them; shoot Your arrows and rout them.

7 Stretch forth thine hand from above; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strangers;

Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,

8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—

10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who rescueth David his servant from the hurtful sword.

to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.

11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of strangers, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.

12 When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth; and our daughters as corner stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;

Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

13 [When] our garners are full, affording all manner of store; [and] our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields;

Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.

14 [When] our oxen are well laden; [when there is] no breaking in, and no going forth, and no outcry in our streets;

Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.

15 Happy is the people, that is in such a case: [yea], happy is the people, whose God is the LORD.

Blessed are the people of whom this is so; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD.